Why Highfields crime stats are on the rise
A DRUNK driver blew three times the legal limit while a woman was assaulted after she disturbed a burglar in her home.
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THE Queensland Police Service move to open a new station at Highfields has paid off with arrests and infringements on the rise.
Officer-in-Charge Stephen Gillinder said the station received a fill complement of staff on July 20.
"With the extra staff and more shift coverage we are detecting a lot more crime than what we could as a Police Beat," he said.
Officers attended to seven significant traffic enforcement actions in the past month.
They include booking a 25-year-old New South Wales woman who was detected driving drunk, at more than three times the legal limit.
Police intercepted her on July 26, on Kratzke Rd, recorded a blood-alcohol reading of 0.168 per cent and charged her with high-range drink driving.
A 42-year-old Toowoomba woman was detained for a roadside drug test on July 9 and police allege she returned a positive reading for methylamphetamine and cannabis.
She was charged with drugged driving and will appear in Toowoomba Magistrates Court in September.
The town's Criminal Investigation Branch has been active with police arresting two teens and an adult over an alleged break in at the Highfields Coles and other stores. (See page 7).
In an unrelated matter two teens were arrested after they left the Highfields 7 Eleven in a stolen Audi Q8 wagon, on July 12, without paying for fuel, worth $70.36.
A Toowoomba boy, 15, and Chinchilla boy, 17, were both charged with stealing and other offences.
Both were dealt with under the Youth Justice Act.
Investigators are on the hunt for a wannabe burglar who assaulted a woman.
Police allege the man punched the woman in the face after she found him in her Steinberg Rd home, on July 15.
Paramedics transported the woman to the Toowoomba hospital for treatment.
As with all investigations, police rely on the public's help.
Anyone with information about suspicious activity should phone the station 4631 6959 or Policelink on 131 444.
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